That's one solution. The other is to head in the other direction, and emphasize passion instead of compositional proclivity. It sounds simpler, and in a sense it is, but it's also much more difficult to get a grasp on, since there's no obvious tools that have that effect directly. I think the best thing that can happen for metal is that its creators just stop fucking trying to justify it out of an emergent boredom/embarrassment/"maturity."

Guide to making good music:- listen to good music- learn how to play music- make good music

Don't worry about how you're doing it, just do it. If you have personal quality, and you have a basic idea of how to make music, then what you make will have quality, whether it's a symphony or a bunch of 3 minute lo-fi black metal folk tunes. Take in as much quality information as you can, whether musical, literary or otherwise, learn the skills required for the creation of physical manifestations, and let your intuition do the rest of the work.

The problem with metal today is that the people making it suck. Basically we need to get the people who are able to make good metal to start making it again.

personally, I think metal lyrics are awesome. even the caveman style like Beherit or Immortal. I love that they use the same symbols and phrases over and over. there's something Zen-like about the repetition.

I've always thought poets should stick to the traditional symbols like sun, moon, night, day, rivers, mountains, eagles, lions. In other words, the exact opposite of comparing the sunrise to an etherized patient on a table.

I don't think there are any metal lyrics that have the strength to stand by themselves without the music, though.

it would be important for Metal Literature to not be TOO literal in its translation from the tradition of the music and its lyrics.

off the top of my head, the most metal piece of literature would have to be Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell or maybe even the Book or Revelations.

When Slayer busted out Satanic lyrics in the 1980s, they were taking the cue from Angel Witch, Judas Priest, and Black Sabbath and making mythologies of the world's end. They were revealing our inner bankruptcy and what we should be paying attention to, but instead of ranting out details like angry leftist punk bands (all leftists are delusional: anarchists, communists, democrats, socialists, libertarians, communitarians, and even apolitical humanists; humans are NOT more important than nature or the order of the cosmos) they looked at the big picture.

Now it has been cloned to death. It went from mythology to orthodoxy during the last days of black metal, and now it's as Politically Correct as saying "but democracy will cure them" whenever you read about a revolution. It's overdone. If you want to fight Christianity, this is not the way. If you want to find a better life, this isn't helping. All you're doing is becoming caricatures of yourselves.